9 Performances a week?

[nightnic001]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 5:38pm

Is this a recent thing? This week BOM,Wicked, and Lion King all have 9 performances. Never seen this before except now and a few weeks prior.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 5:40pm

It's all about the Benjamin's these days.

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 5:40pm

I think it happens sometimes during TONY week.

[After Eight]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 5:57pm

The revival of Oh, Calcutta! played up to eleven performances a week.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:01pm

Thanks for that 40 year old news. ^^^

I think it's a special week or something, their schedules are not usually like that.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:03pm

Or something.

[Tag]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:05pm

I'm sure performers are happy about the extra pay (2/8ths of their weekly compensation) but it's SO tiring.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:10pm

It sounds like these shows aren't very tasking on the performers. Kind of like HEDWIG.

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:12pm

9 shows? A walk in the park. And I know that because I have ADHD.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:15pm

Jane, I to have ADHD so I know 9 shows a week is easier then that.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:25pm

Book of Mormon, Wicked and Lion King have been doing a few 9-show weeks during the summer for the past 2 or 3 years. Many shows also add a 9th performance during the last week of December depending on where Christmas and January 1 fall in a given year.

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:28pm

"Jane, I to have ADHD so I know 9 shows a week is easier then that."

Do you want a gold star? I also have ADHD.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:34pm

It was called a JOKE. Try to keep up.

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 6:54pm

haha, make better jokes.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 7:03pm

Wait, After Eight, that seems highly unusual. I am not really familiar with the material, but was there a specific reason as to why it played so many performances every week?

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 8:18pm

Wasn't OH, CALCUTTA! a non-union show?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 8:19pm

Non-Union performers have been doing 9 shows a week in dinner theaters for years. At a fraction of the pay.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/17/14 at 8:57pm

The Lion King has their actors fund performance tonight.

[NoName3]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 3:32am

The Rockettes do five 90-minute shows a day seven days a week when the Christmas Spectacular is being presented, although to be fair they are double cast and each Rockette usually does "only" 17 or 18 shows a week.

Updated On: 8/18/14 at 03:32 AM

[Jay94]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 4:30am

True story - Disney briefly considered running two Lion Kings on Broadway at the same time because the demand was so high.

[NoName3]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 4:59am

When Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte finally brought their official production of H.M.S. Pinafore to New York, the piece was already so popular that there eight unauthorized productions already playing within five blocks of each other and six more in Philadelphia. (International copyright law was primitive for stage works in the 1870's and hard to enforce.)

Updated On: 8/18/14 at 04:59 AM

[broadwayfan1995]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 5:50pm

Wicked does it a lot. Even the tour sometimes does it.

[evic]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 5:54pm

It is a great way for producers to make more money and to make sure that the casts become miserable, resentful and bored doing the show.

[IAMWHATIAM]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 5:57pm

I just wanted to say well played to Jane on her thread tie-in. You really made me laugh! Thanks.

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/18/14 at 7:24pm

My pleasure! (whatever I said, lol)